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Green Cargo’s Transmontana Takes Shape

Softronic’s Craiova works recently completed the assembly of the bodyshell of Green Cargo’s first Transmontana, 480 032. These photos, taken on 12 February 2018, show it before being mounted on its bogies, and afterwards, being moved on the factory’s own test track. It has yet to be fully fitted out, and then it will be sent to Sweden, together with 480 033, for an initial year of test commercial service.